Jewelry storage: basic rules for different types of jewelry

The desire to pre­serve the orig­i­nal appear­ance, shine and oth­er prop­er­ties of jew­el­ry is quite nat­ur­al for the own­ers. Indeed, it is just as impor­tant to prop­er­ly place jew­el­ry and pro­tect it from var­i­ous neg­a­tive fac­tors as it is to take care of the mate­r­i­al in time. If you prop­er­ly orga­nize the stor­age of jew­el­ry, their qual­i­ty will remain unchanged for a long time.

Standard Requirements

Each piece of jew­el­ry has its own stor­age rules, but there are sev­er­al uni­ver­sal stan­dards:

• Pre­cious met­al items and jew­el­ry should be stored sep­a­rate­ly. The con­di­tions are the same: a cool dark con­tain­er with a low lev­el of humid­i­ty. Excess mois­ture in the atmos­phere does not like either met­als or stones;
• in the same way, you need to orga­nize sep­a­rate stor­age of jew­el­ry on a sil­ver and gold basis;
• it would be best to sep­a­rate all prod­ucts. Pre­cious met­als are soft, so they are eas­i­ly scratched by mechan­i­cal stress. For exam­ple, the fin­er the gold jew­el­ry, the soft­er the mate­r­i­al and the more sus­cep­ti­ble it is to scratch­ing;
• There are many options for orga­niz­ing non-stan­dard stor­age, but it is best to give pref­er­ence to clas­sic spe­cial box­es. Only they will ensure that all nec­es­sary con­di­tions are met;
• even with per­fect stor­age, reg­u­lar main­te­nance and clean­ing is nec­es­sary.

How to store gold jewelry?

Gold items need pro­tec­tion from direct sun­light and a dry micro­cli­mate. The best option is a box made of plas­tic or wood with a soft bot­tom. An alter­na­tive is to use spe­cial­ized soft bags. It is bet­ter not to put jew­el­ry in card­board box­es. Card­board con­tains sul­fur, which caus­es dark spots on gold.

How to store silver jewelry?

Each sil­ver item must be placed sep­a­rate­ly, pre­vent­ing the met­als from con­tact­ing. The best “con­tain­er” — ordi­nary plas­tic bags for Zip-Lock clasps. They can cre­ate an ide­al micro­cli­mate that pre­vents the met­al from tar­nish­ing. Addi­tion­al­ly, you can pro­tect jew­el­ry from mois­ture by adding a reg­u­lar acti­vat­ed black char­coal tablet to each bag. It will absorb excess water mol­e­cules. The bags can be hid­den in a cas­ket or box — this will com­ply with the require­ment to store sil­ver jew­el­ry in a place pro­tect­ed from the sun.

How to ensure the storage of stones?

The main thing is to pro­tect pre­cious stones from scratch­es. If you put the jew­el­ry sep­a­rate­ly, avoid­ing mechan­i­cal con­tact, this will be enough. You can orga­nize com­pact sep­a­rate stor­age by buy­ing spe­cial box­es with par­ti­tions that divide the inte­ri­or space into many com­part­ments. Still stones need pro­fes­sion­al clean­ing 2–3 times a year.

Jewelry storage PANDORA

Prod­ucts from the brand PANDORA it is enough to place in a box, uphol­stered from the inside with a soft cloth. You can addi­tion­al­ly put each piece of jew­el­ry in a spe­cial­ized fab­ric jew­el­ry bag. A few years ago, the brand pro­duced brand­ed box­es with com­part­ments designed for all pop­u­lar types and vari­ants of prod­ucts from the brand.

How­ev­er, this pro­duc­tion has now stopped. But this is not a prob­lem: many com­pa­nies pro­duc­ing ana­logues have appeared on the mar­ket. You can buy them, but in gen­er­al it is enough to pick up any suit­able box with com­part­ments and soft fill­ing. The main thing is that the prod­ucts are sep­a­rat­ed from each oth­er. Well, it doesn’t hurt to pay atten­tion to the col­or and style of the box — it should ade­quate­ly com­ple­ment the jew­el­ry stored inside.